Release Notes: This release addresses issues regarding: watermarks disappearing under certain circumstances when using cropping; watermarks being misplaced when using EXIF orientation metadata; and not being able to build using ant.

Release Notes: A user-reported bug has been fixed. The issue was, under certain circumstances, causing the automatically-generated filename of the thumbnail to have a misplaced the suffix when using the Rename class.

Release Notes: Thumbnailator is now available through the Maven Central Repository. This release introduces a minor change to the code to calculate the size of the thumbnail to prevent errors and possible distortion of the image.

Release Notes: This release introduces changes to the API. In addition, a highly-requested feature to create fixed-size thumbnails while keeping the aspect ratio of the original through the use of cropping has been implemented.